Members of the Marquez family talk outside their temporary shelter in a park, where four adults continue to live with 7 children after their building was damaged in the Sept. 19 #earthquake that killed 228 people in #MexicoCity and 141 more elsewhere..Six months after the temblor, hundreds of families are living in limbo under a patchwork shelter of overlapping tarps and repurposed vinyl advertisements as they wait for the city to determine if their buildings will be repaired or torn down..In a sense, those whose buildings collapsed totally during the quake were luckier; there is no dispute about total demolition, and the government has offered self-financing in some cases to rebuild more apartments on existing lots, with developers selling off the extra units to pay for the reconstruction..📷 Rebecca Blackwell / @ap.images

Turkish military and allied Syrian forces marched into the center of the northern Syrian town of #Afrin Sunday, raising their flags and shooting in the air in celebration nearly two months after launching their offensive on the Kurdish enclave..#Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the capture of Afrin, previously controlled by the Kurdish militia known as the People's Defense Units, or YPG..📷 @kilicbil / @afpphoto

A woman casts her ballot in #Russia's presidential election on Sunday from her home in #Khrapovo. Vladimir Putin's victory isn't in doubt. The only real question is whether voters will turn out in big enough numbers to hand him a convincing mandate for his fourth term — and many Russians are facing intense pressure to do so..Election monitors were reporting irregularities at voting stations across #🇷🇺 , even though election authorities were under orders to ensure that the voting was free and fair after violations marred #VladimirPutin's last election in 2012..📷 @sergeigapon / @afpphoto

Bagpipers with the #NYPD Emerald Society walk past St. Patrick’s Cathedral during the St. Patrick’s Day parade on Saturday in New York City..Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar joined the marchers as 5th Avenue came alive as a sea of green during the 257th running of the parade..(📷 @rutlman / @ap.images) #StPatricksDay#🍀

A spectator shows off her green, white and gold eyelashes at the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade in #Dublin, #Ireland..Dublin hosts the largest St. Patrick’s Day parade in the world, with a route spanning 2.5 kilometers..(📷 Charles McQuillan / @gettyimages) #StPatricksDay#🍀#🇨🇮

Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters rallied across #Slovakia on Friday to demand an early election to resolve a political crisis set off by the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee..Protesters took to the streets for the third straight Friday despite Thursday's resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico and his government..Last week they demanded an investigation into the shooting deaths of reporter Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova in the biggest anti-government protest since the 1989 Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia..(📷 Jakub Gavlak / @epaphotos)

Russian students play as a local election commission worker sets up a polling station at a school in #Moscow on Friday..#Russia's President Vladimir Putin is certain to win a sweeping victory in Sunday's presidential vote, securing another six-year term after 18 years in power, in part on his argument that he must stand up to Western aggressors..(📷 Maxim Shipenkov / @epaphotos)

A terrifying ski lift malfunction was caught on camera, as skiers were sent flying into the air when the lift in #Gudauri, Georgia started running backwards at high speed. Surprisingly, only 10 people were injured, none seriously..(📹 @NBCNews)

Work by elusive British street artist #Banksy is popping up in #NewYork, including a rat running along the bottom of a clock on the front of a former bank. A mural attributed to the anonymous artist was recently revealed on Houston Street, drawing attention to the Turkish artist Zehra Dogùan who was jailed for nearly three years over a painting..📷@plattys1 / @gettyimages@timothyclary / @afpphoto

Crying, chanting and screaming in anger, thousands gathered in front of the #Rio de Janeiro state legislature Thursday to say goodbye to a black city councilwoman shot in the head four times, a brazen murder that shocked #Brazil and raised questions about the effectiveness of a military intervention in the country's second biggest city..#MarielleFranco was slain Wednesday night while returning from an event focused on empowering young black women. Her death touched a nerve in #LatinAmerica's largest nation, where more than 50 percent identify as black or mixed-race yet most politicians are white men..(📷 @mauro_pimentel / @afpphoto)

A child sleeps as he is carried in a suitcase in the town of Beit Sawa in #Syria’s eastern #Ghouta region on Thursday. Tens of thousands of terrified men, women and children streamed out on foot and in pick-up trucks Thursday from besieged enclaves on two fronts, fleeing bombings from the Syrian military near the capital, Damascus, and Turkish troops in the country's north..It was the largest single-day exodus of civilians from fighting in Syria's civil war..(📷 @omarsanadiki / @reuters)

A brand-new pedestrian bridge collapsed onto a highway at a Miami-area college Thursday, killing several people. Several people were seen being loaded into ambulances and authorities said they were searching for people..The bridge was scheduled to open early next year and was designed to withstand hurricane-force winds..(📹 @NBCNews)

Alain Robert, sometimes known as the "French Spiderman" for climbing skyscrapers world worldwide, is still defying gravity at the age of 55..He scaled the summit of the fourth-tallest building in #Paris' modern business district on Wednesday after evading security officers who had thwarted an earlier attempt..A hobby that started at 11 years old has taken Robert to more than 150 skyscrapers around the world, including Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, the Eiffel Tower, and the Sydney Opera House..(📹 @NBCNews)

Exactly one month after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, survivors of the massacre joined tens of thousands of students across the U.S. by walking out of school on Wednesday morning..(📹 @NBCNews) #NationalWalkoutDay